[Vulnerable Communities on The Globe🌍] #25 Bikone Community, Maliba Sub-County, Kasese District, Uganda
Bikone community in Maliba sub-county in Kasese district is a vulnerable community in Uganda.
The community has been facing the high risk of flood, drought, and strong wind for over 10 years now.
The Last Natural Disaster
From September 2021 to April 2022, much rain with strong winds have destroyed all the community food crops, and the floods have washed away all the homes and properties in the community. The disaster resulted in causing famine in Bikone community. The wind also destroyed several community facilities including schools.
A family in the community during last natural disaster
Ms. Goreti, a 43 years old widow and a mother of 8 children faced it rough when much rain and strong winds destroyed all her crops in different gardens, which left her in deep hunger and famine. When her food and house were all destroyed, she lost even money to pay for her children’s school fees since 100% of her income was from agriculture. After this disaster, she started preparing kitchen gardens which helped her to at least start earning a little to recover from the disaster. It would take 2 years for Goreti to completely recover from this disaster and start living her normal life with her children.
Basic Information about Community
Population
about 47500 people, 5300 households
Common Income Source
farming
Common Expenditure
buying food, paying school fees
Money Needed in Case of Natural Disaster
Money to recover from the damage and to prevent the next damage from the disaster is in total around 25,000 USD. This funds will be used to conduct community sensitization on nutrition and establish 10 demonstration kitchen gardens for the community to learn from and adopt the idea to implement the disaster risk reduction actions and improve livelihoods. This activity will target the youth, women, and men respectively. This will help in fighting malnutrition and hunger among communities because it was also evidenced in the community that whenever disasters affect them, they lack what to eat since crops are destroyed by disasters such as floods, landslides, drought, soil erosion among others, and the community has carried out business development actions for poverty reduction.
Some funds will also be used to procure wind breaking tree seedlings for the community members to plant thousands so that the next time such disasters happen, there will be less damage to structures, plants and animals. The NGO shall identify model homes (central homes) to support 50 households with disaster resilience interventions especially on establishing kitchen/backyard gardens, supply of seeds and technical backstopping. Every single household should at least have a kitchen garden that supports their daily foods they eat and gets money and improve livelihood by selling some of the greens and vegetables they collect from their kitchen gardens.
NGOs working in this community
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